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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Saṃstara (संस्तर).—

1) A bed, couch, layer; a bed of leaves &c.; नवपल्लवसंस्तरेऽपि ते (navapallavasaṃstare'pi te) R.8.57; नवपल्लवसंस्तरे यथा रचयिष्यामि तनुं विभावसौ (navapallavasaṃstare yathā racayiṣyāmi tanuṃ vibhāvasau) Kumārasambhava 4.34.

2) A sacrifice.

3) Propagation (of laws or customs).

Derivable forms: saṃstaraḥ (संस्तरः).

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Saṃstāra (संस्तार).—

1) Spreading out, extension.

2) A bed, couch.

Derivable forms: saṃstāraḥ (संस्तारः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Saṃstara (संस्तर).—m.

(-raḥ) 1. A bed, a couch. 2. A bed made of leaves, &c. 3. Sacrifice. E. sam before stṛ to spread, aff. ap .

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Benfey Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Saṃstara (संस्तर).—i. e. sam-stṛ + a, m. 1. A couch, a bed, [Pañcatantra] 117, 12; a layer, Mahābhārata 1, 4708. 2. Sacrifice, [Rāmāyaṇa] 1, 13, 23.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Saṃstara (संस्तर).—[masculine] a bed or couch of leaves or straw; cover, veil; scattering or scattered mass; spreading, sacrificial act (±yajña).

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Saṃstāra (संस्तार).—[masculine] bed or couch of straw.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Saṃstara (संस्तर):—[=saṃ-stara] a raṇa See saṃ-√stṛ.

2) [=saṃ-stara] [from saṃ-stṝ] b m. (ifc. f(ā). ) a layer (of grass or leaves), bed, couch, [Mahābhārata; Kāvya literature] etc.

3) [v.s. ...] a scattered mass (of flowers etc.), [Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa]

4) [v.s. ...] a covering, cover, [Kāvyādarśa]

5) [v.s. ...] scattering, strewing ([varia lectio] for -staraṇa), [Śakuntalā]

6) [v.s. ...] spreading, extension, propagation (of laws or customs), [Harivaṃśa]

7) [v.s. ...] a sacrifice or the ritual arrangements for a s° (generally ifc., as in yajña-s), [Mahābhārata; Rāmāyaṇa]

8) Saṃstāra (संस्तार):—[=saṃ-stāra] [from saṃ-stṝ] m. a bed, couch (mc. for -stara), [Mārkaṇḍeya-purāṇa]

9) [v.s. ...] a sacrifice, [Demetrius Galanos’s Lexiko: sanskritikes, anglikes, hellenikes]

10) [v.s. ...] spreading out, extension, [Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Saṃstara (संस्तर):—[saṃ-stara] (raḥ) 1. m. A bed; bed of leaves; sacrifice.

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Saṃstara (संस्तर) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Saṃthara, Saṃthāra, Saṃthāraga, Saṃthāraya.

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context information

Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Saṃstara (ಸಂಸ್ತರ):—

1) [noun] a casing of cloth filled with cotton, coir, foam rubber, etc., to sleep on; a mattress.

2) [noun] a spreading of leaves, grass, etc. for sitting or lying on.

3) [noun] a horizontal layer or section of material, esp. any of several lying one upon another.

4) [noun] an elaborate religious sacrifice.

context information

Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Stara, Sam.

Starts with: Samstaraka, Samstarana, Samstaranaka, Samstarapankti, Samstaravati.

Ends with: Darbhasamstara, Dushprasamstara, Parnasamstara, Pratisamstara, Yajnasamstara.

Full-text: Yathasamstarika, Santhara, Samstaraka, Darbhasamstara, Samstarapankti, Yajnasamstara, Parnasamstara, Stirni, Pratisamstara, Samstarana, Samtharaya, Samtharaga, Nisidana, Shamantaka.

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